{"id":4095,"date":"2019-10-04T13:40:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T13:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:27","slug":"what-is-the-current-state-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2019\/10\/04\/what-is-the-current-state-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the current state of the Internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Find out in the latest annual report on the global rate of connection from the ITU. This <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.itu.int%2Fen%2Fmediacentre%2FPages%2F2019-PR16.aspx&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C2c1d1f2203754469742808d748b1d643%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C0%7C637057800952539460&amp;sdata=x%2BrV%2BZqgt6xtREg0PYzyC4S3rcklBCAbm%2FuCi2T0ZfU%3D&amp;reserved=0\">year\u2019s theme is Broadband as\u00a0Foundation for Sustainable Development. It considers issues on how to bring Africa online<\/a> <em>and the global digital gap. A new report<\/em> by the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcipesa.org%2F2019%2F09%2Fafrican-countries-broadening-control-over-the-internet-2%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C2c1d1f2203754469742808d748b1d643%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637057800952549456&amp;sdata=p%2F0NZHpfaO8qf%2FQGzmv0x4mM6wXBwGcPWvjqEsWFaLQ%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Collaboration for International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA),\u00a0<\/a>considers in detail the extent of the spread of the Internet and controls over it in Africa over the period 1999-2019. It records that \u00a0in the last 3 years 22 countries have had government shutdowns of internet services such as SMS or Facebook. The implications and reasons and suggestions for future action are considered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out in the latest annual report on the global rate of connection from the ITU. This year\u2019s theme is Broadband as\u00a0Foundation for Sustainable Development. It considers issues on how to bring Africa online and the global digital gap. A new report by the Collaboration for International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA),\u00a0considers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,13],"tags":[17,30,35,42,61,495,82],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-media-and-communication","category-politics","tag-africa","tag-censorship","tag-communication","tag-development","tag-internet","tag-mobile-phones","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4096,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}